Beach Grandson Poems

New Shoes

"Grandpa, my shoes are too small, 
or maybe my feet or too big?"

"You are going to be ten foot tall, 
if you don't stop...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Gramps had a Sunday rite,
It was quiet, perhaps trite. 
In his chalice a Bloody Mary,
As solemn as a seminary.

Took the goblet and a crank,
To his...

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grandson saw his gull friend ~at the beach and a fast food parking lot...

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I went to the beach one June day
Took my grandsons to swim and play
Told them not to swim out of reach
One June day I went...

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WOMAN ON THE BEACH

I saw her as she was just sitting there
I watched the wind gently ruffle her hair
She seemed oblivious of others around
Sitting motionless...

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Saturday Afternoon Before Jack’s 2nd Birthday

A Caravelle wall clock behind me
  ticks away muffled minutes,
Its black pointed hands 
   reaching upward and...

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>I was thinking of writing a letter to the Felixstowe radio, well the people who run it, not the radio itself.  That would be...

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Adventures With James My Grandson 

by Joan Donnelly 1995

 He doesn't walk but runs to his subject on interest,
 and upon arrival, leaps into the...

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         "Pink  Pink  Pink"



Cathy and I were fair feathered friends
two femme fatales with similar blends
lying...

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Happiness to me is baking cookies, seeing an old movie that you haven't seen in awhile. 
Walking on the beach and finding seashells.  Seeing...

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The last time I went to the beach
Watching my grandson play
He was caught by rogue wave
Was being pulled out of the way

I tried to run...

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